From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA30100 for caml-red; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:07:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA23091 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 05:52:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dynabook (207-245-78-253.dca.net [207.245.78.253]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e8O3q6T03529 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 05:52:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dynabook ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=sumii) by dynabook with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13d2b4-0001QU-00; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:36:58 -0400 To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Eijiro Sumii Cc: sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu Reply-To: sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu Subject: Re: ICFP programming contest: results In-Reply-To: <20000921091256.57192@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <20000921091256.57192@pauillac.inria.fr> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.1 (AOI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <20000923233658A.sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:36:58 -0400 X-Dispatcher: imput version 991025(IM133) Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Thanks for kind words, and sorry for having been silent so far -- we thought it would be more fun to keep silence until the official announcement, especially when people weren't aware of us.;) I heard the 3rd place entry was 100 times faster than the 4th, and the 2nd (Xavier's) was 5.5 times faster than the 3rd, but the 1st (ours) wasn't so much faster than the 2nd. Doesn't this mean Caml is a _much_ better language than others---though the contest judge seemed somewhat reluctant to say Caml is "a fine programming tool for many applications" and "the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers"---or, at least, its developers are much better programmers than others?:-) (Jerome was the main programmer in our team, and his coding was amazingly fast.) By the way, we are going to make a web page to describe what we did in detail. We'll announce it in this list when it's ready. // Eijiro Sumii (http://www.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sumii/) // = // Ph.D. Student at Department of IS, University of Tokyo // Visiting Scholar at Department of CIS, University of Pennsylvania > From: Xavier Leroy > Subject: ICFP programming contest: results > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:12:56 +0200 > = > Here are the official results for the ICFP 2000 programming contest: ... > Not a bad year for OCaml. And my personal congratulations to J=E9r=F4= me > Vouillon and his friends for a truly outstanding performance! > = > - Xavier Leroy